Impediments to yardstick competition in federal systems: Experimental survey evidence from German politicians

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Lergetporer ◽  
Sebastian Blesse ◽  
Justus Nover
Keyword(s):  
Yardstick Competition ◽  
Experimental Survey

Is Democracy Exportable?

2019 ◽  
pp. 724-742
Author(s):  
Pierre Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Yardstick Competition ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The People

Among many aspects to the question of whether democracy is exportable, this contribution focuses on the role of the people, understood not as a unitary actor but as a heterogeneous set: the citizens. The people matter, in a different way, both in the countries to which democracy might be exported and in the democratic countries in which the question is about promoting democracy elsewhere. The mechanisms or characteristics involved in the discussion include yardstick competition, differences among citizens in the intensity of their preferences, differences among autocracies regarding intrusion into private life, citizens’ assessments of future regime change, and responsiveness of elected incumbents to the views of minorities. The second part of the contribution explains why promotion of democracy is more likely to work through citizens’ concern with human rights abuses than with regime characteristics.

scholarly journals Managerial Accountability Under Yardstick Competition

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele G. Giuranno ◽  
Marcella Scrimitore ◽  
Giorgos Stamatopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Yardstick Competition ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Direct Competition

AbstractTwo well-known mechanisms for enhancing managers’ accountability are yardstick competition and internal monitoring. Yardstick competition puts managers in direct competition when firms make decisions for re-appointment. Monitoring is used by firms to detect managers’ rent-seeking activities. While common wisdom suggests that the joint use of the two means would reinforce each other in promoting managers good practices, we find that their interplay distorts managers’ behavior who may end up acting in a less accountable way. Furthermore, differences in monitoring across firms bias that distortion, yielding even more counterintuitive results.

scholarly journals “When” Does It Pay to Be Good? Attributions Mediate the Way CSR Elements Impact on Consumer Responses, and Are Controllable

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5869
Author(s):  
Athanasios Krystallis ◽  
Vlad Zaharia ◽  
Antonis Zairis
Keyword(s):  
Past Research ◽  
Consumer Response ◽  
Multiple Mediation ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Consumer Attributions ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Experimental Survey

Responding to the appeal for more research on the contingencies that shape the relationship between CSR and corporate performance, this paper incorporates environmental CSR, sets up an experimental survey and employs multiple mediation analysis with the aim to test the mediating role of consumer attributions on the CSR elements–consumer responses relationship; and further to examine the degree to which attributions are controllable, i.e., specific CSR elements activate specific type of attributions. Results support that attributions have a strong predicting power on consumer outcomes. The right time of appearance and the appropriate amount of resources committed to a CSR campaign, through the dual type of attributions they activate (more positive, i.e., values-driven and less negative, i.e., egoistic), impact positively on consumer reactions. In this respect, the study adds to past research showing that attributions are controllable, i.e., specific CSR initiative characteristics of a impact on the dimensionality of attributions and, through that, on specific target-types of consumer responses. This study thus shows that the activation of a dual-level attributions’ system is ambivalent, dependent on the character of the CSR campaign. The fact that specific CSR elements (i.e., CSR Timing) activate dual-level CSR motives that act complementarily indicates that managers should be clear about the capabilities of the elements of their CSR initiatives and how much impact they expect those elements to have on consumer response.

scholarly journals Experimental investigation of vertical and horizontal reinforcement geotextiles in forest road pavement

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (No. 7) ◽  
pp. 296-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dini Morteza ◽  
Nikooy Mehrdad ◽  
Naskovets Michael Trofimovich ◽  
Ghomi Alireza
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Logging ◽  
Truck Traffic ◽  
Horizontal Structure ◽  
Forest Road ◽  
Vehicle Traffic ◽  
Road Pavement ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Experimental Survey

In this research, the results of an experimental survey on the measurement of vertical stresses are presented. Four treatments were used in this study such as combination of geotextile vertical and horizontal structure with dimensions of 5 × 5 and 10 × 10 cm, horizontal geotextile and the treatment without geotextile. Five sensors were installed in different hole locations and the lead of the truck traffic was transmitted by cables to data logging and recording devices to measure the pressure from vehicle traffic on the simulated pavement layer. Mean comparison of the treatments showed that the geotextile with vertical and horizontal structure and dimensions of 5 × 5 cm exerted the lowest pressure on the lower layers compared with the other treatments and there was a significant difference between the value of this treatment and the other treatments and that this treatment could significantly reduce the pressure of truck traffic on the forest road.

scholarly journals Bosons in high-temperature superconductors: an experimental survey

2011 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 066501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jules P Carbotte ◽  
Thomas Timusk ◽  
Jungseek Hwang
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Experimental Survey
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